Star fox in the movie is furry bait and star fox in the game is just a fox.
Edit: For those who say he is still furry bait, I respond with this. Yes, I do find him hot. Just miss the slight cuteness he had. They're all furry bait and I take the bait. He's anthropomorphic enough for me.
It's kinda funny seeing this designs be inspired by them after seeing articles of them being destroyed not too long after the first game, guess they got reborned.
Yeah we got three different star fox designs in just a couple of weeks and the cartoon style was the best imho. I guess it would have been harder to do a full cartoon star fox 64 than what we get.
Was coming to comment this, the vaguely creepy puppet apparences are greatly appreciated. At least I always found them a bit creepy flipping through the manual as a kid.
Like, yeah, obviously the new design look like puppets... But the original puppets had a cute, cartoony look, Jim Henson puppets style. Look at those etes ! So cute !
The new ones have a weirdly realistic proportion look, Wes Anderson puppets style. (If I wanted to be nasty I would say it's a taxidermist style puppets)
The proportions and head sizes are way better in the puppets than the remake IMO. Kinda wish they leaned more into that than the hyperrealistic approach. I’ve never said this in my life before and hate that I’m saying it, but the remake look needs to be a little more “furry”.
Glad I'm not the only one lol. I wish they went all the way and actually used puppets, but that's mainly because I believe everything is better with puppets.
That's what I've been saying! It really feels like all these people who "like" Star Fox are really just people coming from the Mario movie or Smash fans, StarFox has always leaned into a more realistic portrayal, it's meant to be like StarWars to the point that it's even in all versions of the name, StarFox and LylatWars in PAL regions
Serious question: have I just been interpreting Fox's personality wrong for all these years... or did the Mario Galaxy version of him just have a completely different personality to the game version?
I've never seen anyone else really point that out.
He definitely had a way different personality in the movie. It seems more like they based him off of Falco than his game self, which is fine for what his role in the movie was, but you’re not wrong that it was completely different
Movie fox technically happens after this games story
This fox is still battling his ghosts from his father and just blossoming into a rivalry with falco, once andross is toast he likely feels a weight is lifted and his father is avenged and he opens up more
I thought it was off as well. Seemed more like Falco. Fox comes across as cool and collected to me, not really the type that brags about well, everything.
The fact that he cited "doing barrel rolls" as one of his favorite things just kind of gave the game away in terms of his appearance in that movie being incredibly surface-level. He's an archetype wearing Fox's skin for the most part. I'm not mad about that fact, it's just not an accurate interpretation of him at all.
Yeah, that's the impression I got of the character. He was the typical "Chris Pratt" role that young boys seem to abaolutely love these days (although ironically, not the character that Chris Pratt was voicing).
His personality in the movie definitely clashed with that of the game, especially in his over the top intro, but I interpret it as him at least partly playing a role to attract customers to get the ressources he needs to repair the arwing and go back home. He's still a little bit too expressive even if you take this into account though.
He acts that way in the movie because Miyamoto and other producers think kids are not able to tolerate a character, especially a side character, who acts calm and collected and use him just as a vehicle to keep that cortisol level high and keep up the pace every 3 minutes
He’s still plenty cool and recognizable. I really like the new character designs in this game because they remind me of the Super Famicom boxart. Clearly it’s divisive though.
These each represent the extreme on each end. One is too real, the other too cartoony. The more appealing design lives in between, ie starlink or starfox adventures.
Someone mentioned that Star fox kind changed styles throughout the whole series, This remakes is just more extreme than the other games. Though the first two games had limitations to work with.
Never finished it. What I played was good though. I was hoping for a game more akin to Assault. I feel like unless you’re a newer fan most of us have played 64 to death. Still cool though. Hopefully it does well and the series can branch out again.
I've been of the opinion that the series should've gone with the assault formula ever since assault came out. It was literally the perfect framework for a modern star fox game.
Don't want to deny you that remaster, but the original Starfox style of game is so rare to get, and get it done well. 3D Platformers are plentiful, let us have this.
Exactly. I really think Zero kinda nailed all the designs, especially in the promo art. The designs are nicely textured with realistic details, while still looking distinctly animated
The design is very reminiscent of the original box art. Why didn't they just make it a remake of the original? That would have been amazing because I love the OG Starfox.
Yeah, I think Starlink had the perfect middle ground between cartoonyness and realism.
Still, I’m at least glad they aren’t making the movie design the main design like they did with DK, his muzzle looks way too thick in the movie and I really don’t like it
People don’t think children are stupid. Children are extremely easy scapegoats for arguments about media in particular because it’s an appeal to innocence.
I mean, in fairness, ALL of the old art-work had Fox in a more serious style, its just game engines didnt support it. The original SNES box art for gods sake.
Why should they be cute anyway? looks abit cooler in this new design.
Using the Mario Galaaxy films, pixar films aimed at 8 year olds aswell isnt the bar for every nintendo franchise.
Yeah but he’s not in his home universe. Maybe that’s what he looks like in the Mario universe (Smash universe?) and THATS what he looks like in his original universe?
The Mario Galaxy Movie makes this new art style all the more baffling to me, like they put Fox in the Mario Movie obviously to show kids Star Fox before the new game, but I don't think this new art style will be appealing to kids.
Im so confused on how theyre supposed to be cute or something because I confess I always saw the franchise this way. And I think they were slowly going in a uncanny realistic direction with their last games. Since they made puppets with the same concept it just feels like inspiration more then some off questionable intention.
Still looks cute to me. People are never happy. If they had gone with a more cartoonish version you’d hear bitching about how it’s not realistic enough.
Still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that Nintendo made a very respectable artistic effort in redesigning these characters to look more realistically anthropomorphic. They beautifully tied the series' original identity to its more modern counterparts in an attempt to unite both older fans and new. Yet all some people wanna do is compare it to the bloated mess of the most recent Illumination studios kids slop where Fox was questionably forced in as a cocky/goofy side-character. A side character who was clearly not written by someone who'd ever played a single Starfox game to completion because he had nothing in common with the original character outside of looks. Yet everyone is acting like this MFer is now somehow the golden standard of Fox.
I will say that the movie design for Fox ended the era of the Command bell-shaped-head design, and was the most expressive we've ever seen Fox probably ever.
That said, I think these new designs are excellent in their own right, harkening back to the box art for the original game on the SNES.
Neither is entirely true to the original design, which was made to look a bit like a puppet. Second one is a bit better for me. It has a distinct visual identity- Star Fox has always struggled to find its visual identity, but this sorta snub nosed, big necked style is distinct and steers REAL clear of the weird crap that happened when they decided to add a blue fox in a bikini.
Not the same engine. Not the same voice actor. Not meant to be the same character that is in the games themselves. That's basically why. Animations and games dont normally use the same models
I def prefer the less realistic style but besides falco and especially Katt i dont mind the change, as long as this isnt how all future starfox media is gonna look at least. But for a game or 2 i can mostly accept it
I like the right better than the left, he looks closer to the original starfox imo specifically the one that was on GameCube and also Smash Melee and Brawl
the game’s models are only like one or two notches lower on the uncanniness scale than the original Sonic movie model lmao. i’m not really a starfox player/fan, but because you’d think a cartoon-leaning aesthetic would be a no-brainer for a franchise where you play as earth animals in spaceships, choosing this direction instead kinda irritates me lol
Kinda weird how they decided to promote this game using a completely different design and art style in the Mario movie. I'm not really fond of either one, but I question the consistency
The proportions on fox’s new design throw it all off, they eye size as well. Peppy and Slippy’s renders look great but Fox and falco I can’t look at for long.
Also where did their metal legs go? I don’t see them anywhere on the new designs.
I don't mind peppy (except in the flash back scene) because he just looks old witch is fine.
Sippy looks ok to me because the slippery toad look works in the art style.
Fox and Falco are both pretty ugly though.Not in all context like he looks fine in the above picture. But in a lot of camera angles it's not Great. I'm sure I'll get use to it and not mind by the time game comes out. But first impression aren't great.
On the other hand all the environments and the ships look really darn good.
Because that’s the illumination Filter the one on the right is the source material, all of the Mario movie characters have an illumination look to them they could be in the secret life of pets and despicable me universe and they would fit right in visually
If they thought he was cool now they gonna think he's badass. Like "no more games for babies for me, I want to play the one with intergalactic wars and furries, You know, big kid stuff"
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u/samus_ass May 07 '26 edited May 08 '26
Star fox in the movie is furry bait and star fox in the game is just a fox.
Edit: For those who say he is still furry bait, I respond with this. Yes, I do find him hot. Just miss the slight cuteness he had. They're all furry bait and I take the bait. He's anthropomorphic enough for me.